Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge Hanover Room of downtown Atlanta's Hyatt Regency Hotel late last week, the air was filled with hubbub--and a sense of desperation. A total of 31 public and private corporations had set up interviewing tables to try to fill some 2,000 white-collar jobs, ranging from electrical engineer to word processor to bank teller, in the city's central business district. Some of the vacancies had gone unfilled for six months or more...
Union members say they do not resent students working at the club on weekends because students lack the skills necessary to fill many union jobs...
...seen the place before but never used it. Boy was I right not to. Now that I was forced to enter the monolithic health facility because of the extreme condition of my extremities, I got just the kind of treatment I had always feared. Some woman forced me to fill out a form stating my name and the nature of my affliction...
...placing their hopes for industrial growth in showcase projects like Jubail, a $20 billion new city that rises like a shimmering mirage above the turquoise waters of the gulf. Mile after mile of silver pipes snake across the sands at Jubail, and block after block of beige-colored bungalows fill its residential sector. From Jubail's plants come chemicals and fertilizers as well as iron, aluminum and steel. Planners expect the community to grow from the 30,000 residential workers it now houses to 300,000 by the year...
...times, the war appears to be waged with hydraulics rather than firepower. The Iranians flood the low areas to bog down Iraqi tanks and heavy equipment. The Iraqis use earthmoving vehicles and hundreds of dump trucks to fill in the soggy earth. Despite sustained Iraqi artillery barrages, the Iranians have been aided by heavy rains, which have made it impossible for the Iraqi air force to home in on their positions...